USS San Diego (CL-53)

The USS San Diego (CL-53) was a US Navy cruiser that was laid down on 27 March 1940 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at the Fore River Shipyard of Quincy, Massachusetts and commissioned on 10 January 1942. Her first campaign of the war was the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Ocean, and she also took part in the Battle of Tarawa, the capture of the Marshall Islands, the Mariana Islands campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, raids against Formosa, Luzon, French Indochina, and southern China, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the Battle of Okinawa. She was struck in 1959 and sold to Seattle's Todd Shipyards for scrapping in December 1960.